<p>29/38 on AP Central. Should have done better based on how much I’m studying. </p>
<p>According to REA Crash Course, 60 correct MCQs (12 missed, 8 skipped), and a 6 on the DBQ, and 2 FRQs = 5. So I think I’ll be all right.</p>
<p>Question for past-EHAP’ers (or current ones, if you know)— how specific does the test get? Like, should I worry about remembering all of the Flemish painters/what they painted from the Northern Renaissance? The different families that ruled Milan during the 15th and 16th centuries? or should I just be able to recognize it if it comes up in the MC?</p>
<p>As much as I can remember, I don’t think you need to know all those details on the more obscure concepts. Specific knowledge of major figures (ex. figures of the Enlightenment/Scientific Revolution, major players in the Napoleonic Era, etc.) is going to be very important, but I don’t even remember any of the Flemish painters.</p>
<p>I would know them or be able to recognize them easily just in case, but I’m pretty sure they will not be on the FRQ section.</p>
<p>(Don’t take my word for it too strongly though, I may be wrong and they may give you a Northern Renaissance painting and ask you who it was and what style it was painted in. I’m just giving you my experience/recollection of the test.)</p>
<p>Scrivener, from what I’ve seen in my practice tests, it’s pretty much enough to just recognize a work as from the northern Renaissance. I’ve seen few questions ask so specifically about artists, etc, so if you can identify the work as such and know a little about the meaning of the period, you should be fine.</p>
<p>Renaissance Humanism was a threat to the Church because it
A. espoused atheism
B. denounced Scholasticism
C. denounced neo-Platonism
D. emphasized a return to the original souces of Christianity
E. advanced an amoral philosophy</p>
<p>I got this one wrong. And I don’t really get it.</p>
<p>Scholasticism was partially based on Catholic theology; therefore humanism (which denounced scholasticism) opposed Catholic beliefs and authority, making it a threat to the Church.</p>
<p>(B)</p>
<p>I believe the answer is D. One of the big things about the renaissance was that people were going back to original sources and documents of Christianity instead of just just accepting what the Church told them. This may have been a threat to the Church because they would now have to justify certain things with actual texts from the Bible.</p>
<p>^^^ What’s the answer? My guess is B, due to the fact that the church basically “controlled” and “made up” what intelligence was… so when these Humanists came around they denounced the scholasticism.</p>
<p>well, the answer key says D.
I guessed B.</p>
<p>But the reasoning is that humanists tended to ignore the proceedings of the Church.
and even though they did denounce scholasticism, there was no inherent opposition to it</p>
<p>Hmm, I’m somewhat surprised by that. I would have definitely gone with (B) on the AP test (although I took it last year, so yeah).</p>
<p>^^ Makes sense. Thanks for the review!</p>
<p>The review session I went to tonight for my school was amazing! We talked about the French Revolution for an hour into more depth than we’ve ever went before. Fun times :D</p>
<p>^ When covering the French Revolution, my teacher threw all the empty desks into a barricade in the front of the class and pretended to hide behind it and shoot at counter-revolutionaries.</p>
<p>Oh and the John Tetzel speech; he got so “angry” and his speech was so intense (since Tetzel scared the people into buying indulgences) that he ended up spitting on the front row and knocking a few people out of their desks.</p>
<p>I loved that class.</p>
<p>Urgent!!!
Does anybody have a collection of maps that we absolutely need to know? </p>
<p>Thanks.</p>
<p>Try the EHAP Teacher’s Manual. It should be around AP Central somewhere and has a good outline of a lot of useful info.</p>
<p>
</p>
<p>Sorry for not replying for a few days. I’ve got this little thing called APUSH. Yuck.</p>
<p>Anyway, I put HELLA info into that Thirty Years’ War essay. It was pretty much epic. They don’t tell you your scores on individual essays; you just get your final score in the summer.</p>
<p>
</p>
<p>Uh… I can’t say for sure; I don’t grade the tests. But I do know that one of my FRQs was really good, and the other one on communism was terrible–honestly, it had a few facts (as in, like, three), and I guess a decent thesis, but I didn’t even finish my last body paragraph, nevertheless the conclusion. So if they’re uneven it’ll balance out; I got a 5. That’s why after you do an overview of the entire course, you might benefit from in depth study of a few complicated, important events/people.</p>
<p>I remember last year that for FRQs if you didn’t wanna write about the Thirty Years’ War, you had to know the specific policies of individual enlightened monarchs. That’s pretty hard; b/c they had only slightly distinct policies and it’s difficult to keep the names straight.</p>
<p>No, you do not really need to know about the 100 years war. I’d pretty much guarantee you don’t need to know anything more than that it was a war between the English and French. Maybe that it involved Joan of Arc.</p>
<p>I think it was scrivener who asked about the 30 years’ war:
It resulted from religious conflicts, as did most wars in that period. One of its most significant effects was the devastation of the area which is now Germany, and its leading to the dissolution of the Holy Roman Empire.</p>
<p>I’ll tell you how I studied the 30 Years’ War–you guys could study any topic you feel weak on but is very complicated/important/likely to show up in this same way. I read through the wikipedia page on it, skimming it another time and re-reading the intro and conclusion sections. I then wrote out flashcards for each phase of the war (Swedish, Danish, whatever) explaining how that phase was started, if anyone significant (for instance, Gustavus Adolphus) was involved in that phase, who was on who’s side, and how it ended. Once I had these flashcards, I studied them a bit and then tried to replicate them without looking at them. When I forgot what happened next, I looked back at the original card. I kept re-writing flashcards for each phase until I was able to come up with a close approximation of what I had put on the original flashcard. In all, this process took maybe three hours, and by the end I had a very good understanding of the war.</p>
<p>Sorry for the essay guys! But I hope I helped/wasn’t too confusing, lol. I loved Euro so so much.</p>
<p>^^ thank you quomodo, very helpful! I just worry that I’ll focus for an hour or two on one topic to have it not show up on the test…</p>
<p>Just got crash course, and it’s pretty good so far. Very helpful DBQ section 
Can anyone find another euro test online? I can only find the Practice test :(</p>
<p>Although the 30 year’s war weakened the HRE,
I thought it was Napoleon that dissolved it.</p>
<p>well, by “leading to the dissolution” of the HRE, i think that quomodo means that, after the 30s Years War and treaty of westphalia, the HRE entered into a steady decline and became less and less important in european affairs (the individual states didn’t as much, just the institution of the Holy Roman Empire). By the time Napoleon dissolved it, the HREmperor was essentially powerless. Most of them (like the Hapsburg Charles V) didn’t have power from lands acquired related to the thrown of HRE, but rather from family inheritance.</p>
<p>I hate the Thirty Years War…</p>
<p>Let me try to summarize it without reiviewing it AT ALL! If you want to correct any of my (most likely) wrong information, kuddos!</p>
<p>The Thirty Years War started with the Defenstration of Prague, an event where a Protestant through a Catholic out of a window, landing in manure. This gave the Catholics a reason to start the war, even though the true meaning behind the Thirty Years War was economics and to gain territory. Most of the fighting occured in the H.R.E.</p>
<p>That’s all I remember. . .</p>
<p>I got +42 -37 on Barrons 2008 practice test #1. Exactly how much harder are these questions typically? If they are at all? Thanks. I’m kind of worried :/</p>